35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win."Merit/Jonah

Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

Most often the electorate votes for change.

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.